CHANDIGARH, Punjab—It was January 16, 2015, when Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa had started a peaceful struggle for the release of political Sikh prisoners. He was 83 years old when he had started this struggle in 2015 but now he has turned 88 and he still stands intact on his stance even after 5 years.
His struggle had witnessed an unprecedented mass support during the first half of 2015 which ultimately caused release of Sikh prisoners Prof. Devender Pal Singh Bhullar and Bhai Gurdeep Singh Khera on parole.In
August-2015, the Indian machinery sledgehammered his struggle by orchestrating murder of his son-in-law Satwinder Singh Bhola in America.

File Photo: S. Satwinder Singh Bhola (Chicago)
Since then, the mass support to Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa’s struggle declined dramatically and the leaders of prominent Sikh parties like SAD (Amritsar), Dal Khalsa also stepped back from taking forward this struggle due to their vested interests.
During these five years, an attempt was also made to hijack Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa’s struggle through a Congress backed agitation in 2018 but all this got exposed with time and Sikh community again found its octogenarian general standing intact on his stance.
Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa has been enduring the physical and mental torture continuously for the last five years, but he is adamant on his stance to take up this struggle to a logical conclusion with the release of all political Sikh prisoners who have completed necessary conditions of their life terms.